amaotonovel Chapter 2008: Nothing but dirt
Chapter 2008: Nothing but dirt
After walking a short distance, Fengxi stumbled.
Faced with everyone's concern, she "pretended to be strong" and said:
"It's nothing, just a side effect of the Blood Burning Technique. I can handle it!"
Fan Lizhi and the others were deeply moved.
The captain made a huge sacrifice for them!
They are so lucky to have such a great captain!
Shen Zhilan disagreed, saying, "No one forced you to do this; you brought it on yourself!"
However, Liu Yiyi is barely competent, so she'll just have to put up with it for now.
Fengxi took out a handful of pills and swallowed them, then took a deep breath: "Alright, it's nothing serious. Let's hurry over there, or it will be difficult if we miss this opportunity."
In the darkness, Fengxi and his companions moved like ghosts towards the spot where the Ghost Guards were basking in the moonlight.
This is a relatively flat area on the back hill, with only low grass.
Fengxi saw many ghost guards sitting cross-legged in meditation, but they were all standing a distance apart from each other.
It would be too conspicuous to sneak in now, so Fengxi made a gesture, and the group stepped back a distance and hid in the bushes on both sides of the road, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
A short while later, the ghost guards in the distance stood up and came over.
Their movements were a bit strange; why were they all hopping around?
If their arms weren't outstretched, Fengxi would have suspected they were zombies!
Even when the ghost guards jumped, they were all a certain distance apart, and since there were no shadow guards to supervise them, Feng Xi felt even more confident.
After the last ghost guard hopped past, she followed behind, hopping along!
You heard that he followed closely behind!
Seeing this, the others gritted their teeth and followed suit.
Shen Zhilan hesitated somewhat, feeling that jumping around like that made her look like a fool!
But there was no time to think too much at the moment, so he steeled himself and followed.
After a while, the ghost guard in front resumed its normal walking style. It was a little stiff at first, but then it became normal.
Fengxi and the others followed suit.
Finally, we arrived at the entrance to the Ghost Guard camp.
Fengxi and the others were somewhat nervous. If they were asked to show their identity tokens upon entering, they would be exposed.
Fortunately, no one checked, and the guards at the entrance impatiently urged them on:
"Stop dawdling, it's almost dawn, hurry up and go inside!"
Thus, Fengxi and his group successfully infiltrated the Ghost Guard camp.
After walking through the passageway, the view suddenly opened up before us.
Fengxi guessed that they should be at the foot of the mountain, because there were stone walls on both sides.
There are also many caves on the rock wall.
There must be more ground ahead, but the ghost guards have all stopped, so they can't go any further.
Just as Fengxi was wondering why the ghost guards had stopped, the ghost guards entered the caves on the left and right.
One person, one cave.
Feng Xi: "..."
One radish, one hole?
I don't know if I can... share a spot?
Fan Lizhi and the others felt a sinking feeling in their hearts. It was all over!
Even if the captain has a lot of clever ideas, he's out of options now!
Shen Zhilan cursed inwardly, "That idiot Liu Yiyi! She had so many choices, why did she have to come here? Once they're exposed, they won't be able to escape!"
Just then, she discovered that not all the caves were occupied; some were empty.
Fengxi also discovered it.
So they each found an empty cave and went inside.
Upon entering, they discovered that the place wasn't empty; there were people inside, but they were dead.
He probably hasn't been dead for long, maybe only two or three days.
Fengxi and the others unanimously stripped the clothes off the corpses, leaving behind their identity jade tokens and storage rings, while storing the corpses in their storage rings.
While stripping off their clothes, Fengxi and the others saw the faces of the ghost guards.
It was deathly pale, without a trace of blood, probably due to years of lack of sunlight.
Besides a bottle of pills, there was only a set of clothes in the storage ring; nothing else.
Fengxi poured out a pill, threw it into her mouth, and let the five dog spirit roots analyze its components and effects.
Five Dog Spirit Roots: "..."
You have the nerve to call yourself a Twenty-Seven Cauldron Alchemist? Didn't we do all that work for you?!
Just then, footsteps could be heard.
"We haven't collected any corpses for several days, but we have to today. Being assigned to this shift is the worst luck ever!"
"Who says otherwise?! Staying around these inhuman, ghostly things all day is like living in a tomb of the dead!"
"Stop complaining, or the higher-ups will hear you and you'll be in trouble!"
……
As the voices were heard, a group of shadow guards approached and collected all the corpses from the unused cave.
As they were leaving, someone said:
"Fortunately, there are enough Ghost Guards, otherwise a batch would die every few days, and they would be all gone in no time!"
"What's there to be afraid of? Aren't there plenty of hatching eggs at the cocoon pool? The caves might not even be enough to hold them all!"
"That's true. Compared to them, we're not bad at all!"
"Alright, enough of this nonsense. It's all fate; you can't fight against it!"
……
Fengxi's heart skipped a beat. Were these ghost guards hatched from cocoons?
Aren't they human?
It does look strange; it's probably another mess created by the leader of the Heavenly Alliance!
She asked Commander Liu, "Master, do you know what happened?"
Commander Liu immediately said, "I don't know what happened either. When I was alive, there were no so-called Ghost Guards, and the Shadow Guard Battalion wasn't this large."
Fengxi thought to herself, "It seems I need to find an opportunity to go inside and investigate."
Her decision to join the Ghost Guard was not impulsive; she sensed something fishy when she first met them.
I took this opportunity to come and find out more.
Or we could try to knock out those shadow guards who collect corpses, and then take their place inside.
However, with limited space and so many ghost guards watching, it's not easy to operate.
She decided to wait and see.
While Fengxi and his group were impersonating the Ghost Guards, the Wind and Fire factions finally stopped.
The two sides are evenly matched, and neither side can go all out. The key issue is that if the higher-ups find out, neither side will escape unscathed.
They decided to compromise and work together to develop the wasteland, splitting the treasures they unearthed equally!
Both sides immediately began digging!
Dig and dig!
We dug several meters deep, but all we found was dirt!
There was no sign of the treasure at all!
The Wind Instructor and the Fire Instructor stared at each other, wide-eyed, at the deep pit in front of them.
Finally, belatedly, I realized that something seemed off...
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